Renovation Contractor
in Putrajaya

Local facts last reviewed 29 September 2026. Sources are listed at the end of the page.

Putrajaya is a purpose-built federal administrative capital organised into numbered precincts with a large share of designed-in green space; Precincts 8, 9, 11 and 14 are among its residential areas, and Putrajaya Sentral connects the MRT Putrajaya Line with KLIA Transit. The P.125 Putrajaya constituency, which covers the whole federal territory, counted 109,202 residents in Census 2020.

PPj is both the planning authority and the local authority, and its guidelines treat uniform streetscapes as something to protect. That is why a job that is routine in Selangor — a porch roof, a new front colour, grilles fixed outside the windows — can be refused here.

Putrajaya at a glance

PPj’s three tiers: notify, permit, or plan

No permit, but tell PPj. GP572 lets owners and tenants go ahead without a permit or plan approval for: installing or replacing air-conditioners (compressors in the designated place); free-standing prefabricated structures not attached to the house, such as a gazebo or garden shed, with the roof at least 600mm from any boundary; and interior works — ceilings, grilles (with at least one openable panel for emergency escape), floor and wall finishes, painting and built-in cabinets. Plumbing, sanitary and electrical work within the premises is also in this tier but must be done by a competent person. For all of these, the owner or tenant should notify PPj’s building control directorate in writing or by email, stating the works and how long they will take.

Minor-works permit (PKK), which the owner can submit. Painting the outside of the house (in PPj’s approved colour code), replacing the roof (in the original colour and material), rainwater harvesting, solar panels, and an awning without posts projecting no more than 1m. Applications go through PPj’s OSC 4.0 system.

Plan approval by a qualified person. Demolishing any external or internal wall, splitting a room into smaller rooms, adding floor area, swimming or fish ponds, party walls, adding a roof (including over the dry yard), converting a home to a nursery, kindergarten or elder-care centre, and any work on common property in a strata building. An architect or registered draughtsman prepares and submits the plans, with a registered engineer where reinforced concrete is involved.

Not allowed at all: demolition that changes the original appearance of a terrace or semi-detached house, and converting the drying yard to another use or enclosing it completely.

Precinct homes and the rules that shape them

Terrace and semi-detached houses. PPj’s illustrated guidebook on minor works explains that facade changes are not permitted, in order to keep the uniform character set by the Putrajaya local plan; roofed structures over the car porch are shown as not permitted, and changing materials or colours so that the facade looks different is refused. Over the drying yard, PPj allows only a timber pergola with a polycarbonate roof, or the house’s original roofing material, and the yard must stay a drying yard — it cannot become a wet kitchen.

Grilles. The guidebook requires grilles to be fitted on the inside, with exceptions for the main door, kitchen door and glass sliding doors; grilles outside windows are not allowed, and balconies and drying yards may not be “boxed up”. Finishes are limited to natural tones, black, white or steel colours, and locks should be of a type recommended by the Fire and Rescue Department.

Window hoods and garden structures. A hood over a window needs approval, may be fitted over windows only, must be timber with the same roofing material as the house, and may project no more than 900mm. A free-standing gazebo, pergola or store needs no approval, but its roof must stay 600mm from the boundary and each lot must keep at least 30% green area.

Penalties, hours and site rules

GP572 lists the penalties under the Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974: up to RM25,000 for altering a building without prior written permission; up to RM50,000, three years in prison or both (plus RM1,000 a day) for deviating from an approved plan; and up to RM500 plus RM100 a day for putting up partitions, lofts, roofs or ceilings without permission. PPj’s illustrated guidebook adds that starting work before approval can cost ten times the normal plan fee.

On site, the approval certificate must be displayed throughout the works, and building work is allowed only from 8am to 5pm, Monday to Saturday — an hour shorter than the 6pm finish MBSJ and MBPJ allow. Construction waste must be handled by a construction-waste collector holding a licence from the national solid-waste department (JPSPN), and placing materials or closing a road or lane needs a separate PPj permit.

Jobs we can do within PPj’s rules

Most of these fall in GP572’s no-permit interior tier (with notice to PPj):

• Floor tile replacement — floor and wall finishes, a notify-only job under GP572.
• Invisible grilles — window safety; check PPj’s inside-only, openable-panel and no-boxed-balcony rules first.
• Kitchen cabinet door replacement — built-in cabinet work without a permit.
• Wallpaper — interior finishes that leave the facade untouched.
• Mould remediation — treating damp walls and ceilings inside the home.
• Post-renovation cleaning — clearing up after interior works.

Putrajaya precincts

We cover Putrajaya’s residential precincts, including Precincts 8, 9, 11 and 14.

Around Putrajaya

Neighbouring areas with their own pages:

• Cyberjaya — next door, under MP Sepang.
• Bangi — MPKj town to the east.
• Seri Kembangan — MBSJ township to the north.
• Kajang — MPKj’s administrative centre.
• Puchong — to the north-west, mostly MBSJ.

Sources & official references

The local facts on this page were checked against the sources below on 29 September 2026. Council procedures, forms and fees change — confirm the current position with the council before you start work:

• PPj — GP572 basic guideline for minor works and renovation of homes (2023) — three tiers, prohibited works, owner duties, hours, penalties.
• PPj — illustrated guidebook on minor works and renovation of homes — facade and porch rules, dry yard, window hoods, grilles, garden structures, fee penalty.
• OpenDOSM — P.125 Putrajaya (Census 2020) — population.